Molecular phylogeny of heritable symbionts and microbiota diversity analysis in phlebotominae sand flies and Culex nigripalpus from Colombia.

• Main Authors: Rafael J Vivero-Gomez (Author), Víctor A Castañeda-Monsalve (Author), María Claudia Atencia (Author), Richard Hoyos-Lopez (Author), Gregory D Hurst (Author), Gloria Cadavid-Restrepo (Author), Claudia Ximena Moreno-Herrera (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Secondary symbionts of insects include a range of bacteria and fungi that perform various functional roles on their hosts, such as fitness, tolerance to heat stress, susceptibility to insecticides and effects on reproduction. These endosymbionts could have the potentia...